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World-renowned mime artist Marcel Marceau will return to
McCarter Theater for his 21st engagement at 4 p.m. Sunday,
April 22.
Nobel winner to speak
Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft will deliver a lecture on
quantum physics geared toward a general audience Monday,
April 16.
't Hooft, a professor of theoretical
physics at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands,
will speak on "Quantum Field Theory, the Gravitational Force
and the Future of Quantum Mechanics." His talk, which begins
at 8 p.m. in the A-10 auditorium of Jadwin Hall, is the 2001
Donald Ross Hamilton Lecture.
't Hooft and Martinus Veltman received
the Nobel Prize in 1999 for their work in providing a
mathematical framework to describe the electroweak
interactions between elementary particles.
Celera exec discusses genome project
Craig Venter, the scientist-entrepreneur who led the
private effort to sequence the human genome, will present a
public lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in Helm
Auditorium, McCosh 50.
Venter, whose talk is titled "Sequencing
the Human Genome," is president and chief scientific officer
of the Celera Genomics Corp., which established itself as a
competitor to the international, publicly financed
sequencing program.
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In 1998, Venter announced that Celera would sequence the genome by 2000, five years sooner than the public consortium's goal of 2005. That initia-tive greatly accelerated the process, which culminated with a joint announcement by both groups on June 26, 2000, that the sequencing was complete. The groups published their findings -- the results of analyzing 3.12 billion chemical units -- in the journals Science and Nature in February.
Venter's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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As part of a lecture series on "Space Exploration," Neil
deGrasse Tyson will give a talk on "Space Travel Troubles"
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in McDonnell
Auditorium.
Tyson is the Frederick Rose Director of
the Hayden Planetarium in New York City and a visiting
research scientist and lecturer in astrophysics at
Princeton. He is a monthly essayist for Natural History
magazine and is the author of two recent books, a memoir
titled "The Sky is not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban
Astrophysicist" and "Just Visiting this Planet," a Q&A
on the universe for all ages.
The talk, sponsored by the Council on
Science and Technology, is part of the Evnin Lecture
Series.
Holocaust is topic of April 18 speech
Deborah Lipstadt will speak on "Denying the Holocaust:
Perspectives from a British Courtroom" at 8 p.m. Wednesday,
April 18, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of Modern
Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, is the
author of "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on
Truth and Memory," the first full-length study of the
phenomenon of Holocaust denial. As a result of that book,
she was sued for libel in Britain by David Irving, a right
wing extremist and self-proclaimed Hilter enthusiast.
Her talk is the 23rd Carolyn Drucker '80
Memorial Lecture and is under the auspices of the Department
of Near Eastern Studies.
'Adam Smith' looks at Russia
Economic analyst George Goodman, better known as Adam
Smith of the Emmy-Award winning program "Adam Smith's Money
World," will speak on "Russia: Threat or Promise?" at 4:30
p.m. Wednesday, April 18, in Dodds Auditorium,
Robertson Hall.
Goodman will present previews of a
one-hour "Adam Smith" special that will air later in the
spring on WNET, Channel 13. Stephen Kotkin, director of
Russian studies at Princeton, Celestine Bohlen, former
Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times, and Mark Medish,
former senior director of the National Security Council for
Russia and Eastern Europe, will join Goodman in a discussion
of the program and the issues it raises.
In both the PBS special and the Princeton
seminar, Goodman and his guests will address a number of
probing questions about Russia's economy, political
leadership, media and business climate.
The presentation is sponsored by
Princeton's Center of International Studies and Adam Smith
Global Television.
Foreign policy explored
Ernest May, the Charles Warren Professor of History at
Harvard University, will give a lecture entitled "Presidents
and Foreign Policy" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19,
in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
May directs Harvard's Center for Studies
in American History as well as a research and teaching
program on intelligence and policy.
May's address is the eighth in a series
of Klaus Knorr Memorial Lectures.
Symposiumfocuses on N.J. sports
New Jersey and Sports: A Strikeout or Homerun? An
Investigation of the Social, Economic and Environmental
Ramifications of Sports in New Jersey" is the topic to be
debated at the University's annual Symposium on New Jersey
Issues Friday, April 20.
The event will run from 9 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. There is no charge
for this program, but registration is required.
The symposium will feature the fol-lowing
presenters: Michael Danielson, Princeton professor of public
affairs and author of "Home Team: Professional Sports and
the American Metropolis"; James DiEleuterio Jr., president
and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Sports and
Exposition Authority; Rick Brenner, general manager of the
Trenton Thunder; Bob Prunetti, Mercer County executive; and
several state legislators.
Sponsored by the Office of Community and
State Affairs and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, the symposium focuses on topics of
interest to New Jersey legislators. Register via e-mail at
hersh@princeton.edu
or fax at 258-1294.
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Lester Little, scholar, teacher and interpreter of Europe
in the Middle Ages, will present the final lecture in a
year-long series celebrating the centennial of the Graduate
School Sunday, April 22.
Little, who earned his Ph.D. from
Princeton in 1962, will speak on "Monasticism in Western
Society: From Marginality to the Establishment and Back" at
4 p.m. in Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.
A faculty member at Smith College since
1971, he currently is the Dwight Morrow Professor of
History. In 1998, he was named director of the American
Academy in Rome, a renowned institute for independent study
and research in the fine arts and humanities.
The lecture series, entitled "Frontiers
of Knowledge," brought six distinguished Graduate School
alumni back to campus to make presentations. The April 22
lecture will be followed by a reception in the Frist Campus
Center's Multipurpose Room.
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